when your brakes fail, can you shift to Reverse in order to stop the vehicle? why or why not?

Question

I’m mostly thinking about a scenario where you are going down a highway (say, at 120kmh for the sake of the example) and suddenly your brakes fail

could shifting to Reverse function as a brake in that situation?

edit: thank you all for the answers, I want to note that I myself don’t drive and did not consider doing this, I was just wondering if this was possible

have a lovely day o/

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Answer 1

Can you? It depends on the car (Newer cars definitely not, older ones maybe)
Should you? If you have to stop *right now* and your car *can* do it, it’s an option. It would be unsafe but you’re already in an unsafe situation to begin with.

Here’s a video showing what happens in an older (manual transmission) car where it is possible.